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From: cameron@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz (Cameron Simpson "Life? Don't talk to me about life.")
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
Message-ID: <3846@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz>
Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 21:40:48 EST
Article-I.D.: elecvax.3846
Posted: Sun Nov 22 21:40:48 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Nov-87 00:42:25 EST
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Organization: EE and CS, Uni of NSW, Sydney, Australia
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Summary: almost spelling correcting shell
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In article <1402@cuuxb.ATT.COM>, dlm@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Dennis L. Mumaugh) says:
| After that is fixed we can talk  about  Jim  Gillogly's  spelling
| corrector shell.
| -- 
| =Dennis L. Mumaugh
|  Lisle, IL       ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,lll-crg}!cuuxb!dlm

I once used something calling itself `nsh' on a System V machine, and typed
	$ cd thnig
and thought "bother, I meant `thing'" and was then disconcerted when it said
	path/thing
	$
back at me. It had fixed the transposed chacters and dropped me in the right
spot! Hopefully it only happened in interactive mode, but it was very
disconcerting.
	- Cameron Simpson